Fear of Heights in Infants?

被引：19

作者：

Adolph, Karen E. ^{[1
]}

Kretch, Kari S. ^{[1
]}

LoBue, Vanessa ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA

[2] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA

来源：

CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 2014年 / 23卷 / 01期

关键词：

emotion; locomotion; affordances; SOCIAL INFORMATION; VISUAL-CLIFF; ACQUISITION; LOCOMOTION; EXPERIENCE; SEVERITY; ETIOLOGY; WARINESS;

D O I：

10.1177/0963721413498895

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Based largely on the famous visual cliff paradigm, conventional wisdom is that crawling infants avoid crossing the brink of a dangerous drop-off because they are afraid of heights. However, recent research suggests that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Avoidance and fear are conflated, and there is no compelling evidence to support fear of heights in human infants. Infants avoid crawling or walking over an impossibly high drop-off because they perceive affordances for locomotionthe relations between their own bodies and skills and the relevant properties of the environment that make an action such as descent possible or impossible.

引用

页码：60 / 66

页数：7

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